Brett and Richard,
Yes, those were the essays.
 
This morning I read again the Poems of Alfred Venison, The Poet of
Titchfield Street (verse from the 1930s),  included as an appendix in
PERSONAE: The Collected Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound (New Directions, 1971).
More "funny" talk there (about millions of underfed people on the dole,
media barons, politicos, bankers, arms dealers, and the impending World War)
very much in the same mode as Pound's letter to George Biddle, brother of
former Attorney General Francis Biddle (who was, as Jonathan Morse tells us,
"a writer himself, and a proud scion of the old Philadelphia banking family
that's mentioned in _The Cantos_").
 
Tim Romano
 
 
 
Richard Edwards wrote:
> And a "revolutionary simpleton" into the bargain.
 
Brett Zombro wrote:
> >Possibly the chapter 'A Man in Love with the Past' in Lewis' Time and
> >Western Man?  I think that's where L. characterizes Pound as a
> >'genuine naif,' or something to that effect.